Anywho, I could swear I read somewhere that while doing some anti-gun research, a professor made up the term “assault weapons”, out of thin air, and they’ve been suing ever since as if it were the gospel.
I know all will find it amazing, but when using search terms “professor assault weapons terminology research” the results are about 18yr olds getting guns. Shocking.
As usual, they know nothing about the things they try to control.
It has been this way for over 40 years. You can do a 1-1 comparison of firearms shown in action movies and legislation being passed restricting the same guns depicted.
Thank you!
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I’ve been saying this for DECADES! Challenge these morons to their faces in public. Ask them to explain what a “clip” is. Hold up a cartridge round and ask, “is this a bullet?” They May freak out and duck. Then tell them “AR” is an abbreviation for Armalite Rifle!
My favorite is to just ask a lib, “Exactly what is an ‘Assault Rifle?” And see what they say.
Then ask them just what “Semi-automatic” and “auto-loader” are — and what’s the difference.
Then ask them if a lever-action rifle is an assault rifle.
Watch the heads explode.
I thought it was the media, but either way, it is a made up term.
"Assault rifle" has a specific military definition, but "assault weapon" can be anything they want it to be. But even then, they're idiots and use the terms interchangeably.
Pretty much true of everything they attempt to legislate. Health. Medicine. Economy. Business. Safety. Education. Transportation. Immigration. National security.
They are only experts at one thing: Ways to screw the American taxpayer. They wrote the Kama Sutra on that.
As the great Ronald Reagan said, “It isn’t so much that liberals are ignorant. It’s just that they know so many things that aren’t so.”
We need to contact our people in the various firearms manufacturing businesses regarding if there any truth to the claim that they marketed their firearms in catalogs with the terms “assault weapon” or “assault firearm” as claimed by Josh Richman of the San Jose Mercury News in January 2013.
They don’t care that they don’t know.
Actually, it was Josh Sugarman who came up with the non-sensical term, and he wrote that they needed the public’s confusion over firearms to finally ban them.
Calling the AR-15 style rifles “weapons of war” is no different than than saying a car with wide tires and a hood scoop is a “dragster.”
And today, the lies continue. The paragon of virtue, the former congresscritter who was cavorting with an intern who turned up dead, is now claiming that “the current AR-15s are far more ‘deadly’ that the M16s issued during the Viet Nam war!”
Mark